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  • Jacques Barzun Observations on Culture and Decline

    Jacques Barzun Observations on Culture and Decline0

    Jacques Barzun (1907-2012) was one of the preeminent historians of the 20th century. Valedictorian of the 1920 class at Columbia, where he also received his Ph.D., Barzun wrote extensively on culture and education while serving in professorial and leadership roles at Cambridge and Columbia. His magnum opus, From Dawn to Decadence (2000), which traces the

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  • Jacinda Ardern and Whether Women Can Really ‘Have It All’

    Jacinda Ardern and Whether Women Can Really ‘Have It All’5

    New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern certainly hasn’t been on my list of favorite people for the last several years, largely due to her draconian COVID policies on masks, vaccines, and quarantines, and her “government knows best” attitude. But I finally had something to applaud her for the other day when she announced her resignation,

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  • J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hope for the Modern World

    J.R.R. Tolkien’s Hope for the Modern World0

    Clyde Kilby, an English professor from Wheaton College, worked with Tolkien in the summer of 1966. “Tolkien was an Old Western Man who was staggered at the present direction of civilization,” Kilby recorded after a summer of conversations with Tolkien. “Even our much vaunted talk of equality he felt debased by our attempts to ‘mechanize

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  • J.R.R. Tolkien’s Destitute Mom Gave Him One Hell of an Education

    J.R.R. Tolkien’s Destitute Mom Gave Him One Hell of an Education0

    J.R.R. Tolkien’s father died when he was just four years old. The famous author, best known for The Hobbit and his Lord of the Rings trilogy, was raised by his mother, Mabel, who took great pains to see that her young son received a proper education. Mabel did not disappoint. Authors Philip Zaleski and Carol

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  • J.R.R. Tolkien on Sex and Love

    J.R.R. Tolkien on Sex and Love1

    J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was one of the intellectual giants of the 20th century. Best known as the author of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien served as the Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1925 to 1945. He left this position in 1945 to take

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  • J.M. Keynes’ Dreams of a Eugenic Future

    J.M. Keynes’ Dreams of a Eugenic Future0

    Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren ranks among the best-known contributions in the economic writings of John Maynard Keynes. First prepared as a lecture for schoolchildren in 1928, the article predicted a coming age of leisure and economic abundance in the not-too-distant future. The economist’s century-long prophecy of a 15-hour work week, attained through scientific ordering

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